2026 James K. Hammitt: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	66	576	521	371	328	264	13028

Overview

James K. Hammitt is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in economics, econometrics, and finance. They have contributed significantly to the subfields of economics and econometrics, general health professions, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, automotive engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research spans a variety of topics including:

Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
Global health care issues
Economic and environmental valuation
Healthcare policy and management
Climate change and health impacts
Air quality and health impacts
Vehicle emissions and performance

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by James K. Hammitt are:

"Assessing the health impacts of electric vehicles through air pollution in the United States," 2020, Environment International
"Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Valuing mortality risk in the time of COVID-19," 2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
"Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime," 2020, Journal of Health Economics
"Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit-Cost Analysis," 2020, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Frequent co-authors include:

Lisa A. Robinson
Matthew D. Adler
Christoph M. Rheinberger
Maddalena Ferranna
John S. Evans

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Risk Analysis
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Journal of Health Economics

James K. Hammitt has also published a book titled Prioritarianism in Practice, released in 2022 by Cambridge University Press, which has received academic citations.

Best Publications

Willingness to Pay for Health Protection: Inadequate Sensitivity to Probability?

James K. Hammitt;John D. Graham

498
Citations
Valuing Mortality-Risk Reduction: Using Visual Aids to Improve the Validity of Contingent Valuation

Phaedra S. Corso;James K. Hammitt;John D. Graham

386
Citations
The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates Between High and Low Income Populations

James K. Hammitt;Lisa A. Robinson

365
Citations
Cost-effectiveness of treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection in an evolving patient population.

Joshua A. Salomon;Milton C. Weinstein;James K. Hammitt;Sue J. Goldie

324
Citations
Valuing Mortality Risk: Theory and Practice†

James K. Hammitt

290
Citations
The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in China: A Contingent Valuation Study

James K. Hammitt;Ying Zhou

286
Citations
A new meta-analysis on the WTP/WTA disparity

Tuba Tunçel;James K. Hammitt;James K. Hammitt

265
Citations
Modeling for health care and other policy decisions: uses, roles, and validity.

Milton C. Weinstein;Edmond L. Toy;Eileen A. Sandberg;Peter J. Neumann

263
Citations
A sequential-decision strategy for abating climate change

James K. Hammitt;Robert J. Lempert;Michael E. Schlesinger

259
Citations
QALYs Versus WTP

James K. Hammitt

244
Citations
Effect of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the risk perception of residents near a nuclear power plant in China

Lei Huang;Ying Zhou;Yuting Han;James K. Hammitt;James K. Hammitt

241
Citations
National Health Insurance and precautionary saving: evidence from Taiwan

Shin-Yi Chou;Jin-Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt

234
Citations
Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Global Benefit-Cost Analysis.

Lisa A Robinson;James K Hammitt;James K Hammitt;Lucy O'Keeffe

209
Citations
Mother's willingness to pay for her own and her child's health: a contingent valuation study in Taiwan.

Jin Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt;Jung Der Wang;Jin Long Liu

203
Citations
Assessing the public health benefits of reduced ozone concentrations.

Jonathan I. Levy;Timothy J. Carrothers;Jouni T. Tuomisto;James K. Hammitt

202
Citations
Understanding and improving the one and three times GDP per capita cost-effectiveness thresholds

Lisa A Robinson;James K Hammitt;James K Hammitt;Angela Y Chang;Stephen Resch

202
Citations
Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk

James K. Hammitt;Jin-Tan Liu

201
Citations
Valuing fatal risks to children and adults: Effects of disease, latency, and risk aversion

James K. Hammitt;Kevin Haninger

196
Citations
Valuing Changes in Mortality Risk: Lives Saved Versus Life Years Saved

James K. Hammitt

194
Citations
Estimated hedonic wage function and value of life in a developing country

Jin Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt;Jin Long Liu

191
Citations
Empirically Calibrated Model of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States

Joshua A. Salomon;Milton C. Weinstein;James K. Hammitt;Sue J. Goldie

180
Citations
BACKGROUND RISKS AND THE VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE

Louis R. Eeckhoudt;James K. Hammitt

178
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Eeckhoudt IESEG School of Management

John D. Spengler Harvard University

John D. Graham Indiana University

Edgar G. Hertwich Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Robert J. Lempert RAND Corporation

Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park

Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park

Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sally E. Shaywitz Yale University

External Links

Personal website of James K. Hammitt

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